Chi Alpha Sigma recognizes undergraduate college student-athletes who participate in a sport at the varsity intercollegiate level, achieve junior academic standing or higher after their fifth full time semester, and earn a 3.4 or higher cumulative grade point average.
Owls' athletics recognized its major award winners, including the Senior Scholar Athlete Awards, the Peter Mazza Athletic Award, the Senior Male and Female Athletes of the Year, and the John Kurty Award, the department's highest award for four-year contributions to athletics, and inducted 33 new members of Chi Alpha Sigma, the national honor society for college athletes.
The MASCAC Sportsmanship Team is intended to recognize one student-athlete from each team, in every sport that best demonstrates the values of the MASCAC and its Sportsmanship Statement, regardless of their overall performance or statistics for the season.
At the conclusion of the winter sports season, Westfield State University Athletics continues to hold the top spot in the 2023-24 Howard C. Smith Cup standings as the best athletic program in the MASCAC.
Westfield State ice hockey lost a MASCAC Semifinal game against top-seeded and nationally ranked #13 Plymouth State University, 5-1 on Saturday evening from Plymouth, N.H.
Westfield State senior Kevin Chandler racked up 27 saves to lead the Owls to a 4-0 win over Framingham State in the MASCAC Quarterfinals on Thursday evening.
Emile Pichette tallied a goal and an assist but Westfield State dropped a 5-4 MASCAC game against UMass Dartmouth as part of Senior Night on Saturday evening.
Westfield State first-year Emile Pichette scored twice, but Fitchburg State scored three goals over the final ten minutes of regulation time to defeat the Owls, 5-4 in a MASCAC game on Thursday evening.
Framingham State scored three times in the final 3:21 of the third period to escape with a 4-4 tie against Westfield State in a Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference men’s ice hockey game at Amelia Park Arena on Thursday evening.
Westfield State will wear promotional purple jerseys, the signature color for Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness. Also, the event coincides with Amelia Park Arena’s Canned Food Drive to Shutout Hunger at the Westfield Soup Kitchen.
A four-goal third period by Worcester State broke a 2-2 tie as the Lancers downed Westfield State 6-2 in a MASCAC contest from Worcester, Mass. on Saturday night.
Nicolas Coppola opened the game’s scoring 2:42 into the game as Westfield tallied three goals in the first five minutes of the game to defeat #15-nationally ranked Plymouth State 3-2 on Thursday night.
Westfield handed the Panthers their last league loss on February 15, 2022. Plymouth comes in with a 39-game unbeaten streak against MASCAC foes, as they ran the table in the conference regular-season and tournament in 2022-23 as well.
Westfield State senior Gianluca Marini scored the go-ahead goal 5:35 into the third period and Nicolas Coppola buried a crucial insurance goal to propel the Owls to a 6-4 win over Salem State.
Kevin Chandler (Hanover, Mass.) picked up a 27-save shutout and Christopher Miraldo’s (Montreal, Quebec) early third period goal sealed the deal for the Westfield State Owls as they took down the visiting MCLA Trailblazers 3-0 on Thursday evening at Amelia Park Arena in Westfield, Mass.
Westfield State first-year Emile Pichette scored twice, but Framingham State rallied from a two-goal deficit to defeat the Owls 4-3 on Saturday night from Framingham, Mass.
Westfield State’s Brett Williams scored two goals and added an assist as the Owls topped Worcester State, 5-3 in a Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference game at Amelia Park Arena on Thursday night.
Westfield State senior Gianluca Marini scored twice in the third period as the Owls used a strong third period to defeat Salem State 6-3 on the road Thursday night.
Westfield State ice hockey players’ Daniel Finegan (Chicago, Ill.) and Christopher Miraldo (Montreal, Quebec) were named MASCAC Player and Rookie of the Week.